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    By Hamilton Nolan
    Apr 13, 2009 3:28 PM 7,472
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    Paula Froelich's Rejected Book Cover

    Page Sixer Paula Froelich has a book coming out called Mercury in Retrograde ("chick lit"). The current cover, pictured, is rather serene. But the original cover, pictured below, was more DYNAMIC:

    Liz Smith reports    :

    The artist Marisa Marchetto drew likenesses of "Penelope" and "Lena" and they are on MySpace and Twitter feeds. But for "Lena," the author used a picture from her own 30th birthday party and added the hair of true-life glamour girl Cornelia Guest.

    The original, rejected cover (below) was by Chip Kidd, one of the most famed and prolific book jacket designers eva.

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